VM - Talk
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This document discusses different types of virtualization including full virtualization, paravirtualization, and software emulation. It describes common virtualization platforms like VMware, VirtualBox, KVM, and Xen and how KVM utilizes the Linux kernel to enable virtualization on systems with Intel VT-x or AMD-V support. The document also mentions management tools for KVM like libvirt and demos its virtualization capabilities before opening for questions.
VM - Talk
- 1. VM-Talk wanleung (2nd Dec 2011)
- 4. Full Virtualization Hardware support - intel-VTx, AMD-V ●Vmware, Virtual Box, KVM, Xen3.0 (Citrix Xen), Parallels (Mac), Virtual-PC (Windows) ●
- 6. Software Emulator QEMU, DosBox, PearPC ●
- 7. KVM NOT Keyboard, Video, Mouse ●Kernel-based Virtual Machine ●
- 8. KVM Linux Kernel 2.6.20 (2007) or above ●FreeBSD and Illumos (opensolaris) also have porting ●
- 9. KVM requirement Hardware Support ●Intel-VTx (grep vmx /proc/cpuinfo) ●AMD-V (grep svm /proc/cpuinfo) ●QEMU ●
- 10. KVM Management Tools libvirt ●Has both GUI and Command Line Tools ●
- 11. Demo
- 12. Q/A Question? ●